Apologetics and Evidence

            We have all been there. There is this person who just seems to light up your life when you see him or her. You feel like you’re on top of the world, yet you don’t know what to say or how to act when this amazing and attractive person is near you, let alone consuming your mind. It’s one of life’s biggest paradoxes. You get butterflies in your stomach, you stop eating and you lose weight, you get nervous and sweat even at the thought of this person, yet you could move a fallen red oak tree with your bear hands if it meant being with him or her. In the words of an old song, “It sounds like love’s got a hold on you; no doubt love’s got a hold on you.”             This article seeks to bring up the point of instantly agreeing with someone about things that you like or don’t like, agreeing with incomplete truth and the consequences of such an agreement. For instance, i...

             I want you to think of a question: "Am I interested in dating anyone?" Chances are, you are interested in someone of the opposite sex. Now think also about this question, "Do I have the gift of celibacy?" This gift is talked about in the Bible, in first Corinthians chapter seven:             “ Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual con...

On one hand, it seems Abraham took a step of faith and listened to his wife Sarah's suggestion of sleeping with her slave (Genesis 16:2). In other words, Abe may have thought that this was the means by which God would keep His promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:2; further elaboration in 22:17). On the other hand, In Acts 16:7, Paul and his companions tried to go a certain way, but "the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them" to go that way.. See also Acts 27 where the ship would not go the way they wanted it to. So, on the first passage, it might seem that Abraham may have taken a step of faith with no divine intervention and the second set of passages, Paul took a step of faith and God intervened. Does this mean that there is a contradiction in faith or something like that? Does it mean that there is a contradiction in the Bible? Before we get too anxious about this, let’s take a minute to analyze the situation. In Genesis 2:18 where God reasoned (for our sak...